X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Gitweb/blobdiff_plain/2ea1d67c50c405bb76e471563bf87ed8643aa905469e8c8c9630b81d5eea0d24..945fd4d5c7d2d88a5355e32aac145fa9c108595ca7ba2e90871dd0d8da7c1cc4:/README

diff --git a/README b/README
index d995a05..659de2b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ You can specify the following configuration variables when building GIT:
    web browsers that support favicons (website icons) may display them
    in the browser's URL bar and next to site name in bookmarks).  Relative
    to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: git-favicon.png]
+ * GITWEB_JS
+   Points to the localtion where you put gitweb.js on your web server
+   (or to be more generic URI of JavaScript code used by gitweb).
+   Relative to base URI of gitweb.  [Default: gitweb.js (or gitweb.min.js
+   if JSMIN build variable is defined / JavaScript minifier is used)]
  * GITWEB_CONFIG
    This Perl file will be loaded using 'do' and can be used to override any
    of the options above as well as some other options -- see the "Runtime
@@ -164,6 +169,12 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    Full URL and absolute URL of gitweb script;
    in earlier versions of gitweb you might have need to set those
    variables, now there should be no need to do it.
+ * $base_url
+   Base URL for relative URLs in pages generated by gitweb,
+   (e.g. $logo, $favicon, @stylesheets if they are relative URLs),
+   needed and used only for URLs with nonempty PATH_INFO via
+   <base href="$base_url">.  Usually gitweb sets its value correctly,
+   and there is no need to set this variable, e.g. to $my_uri or "/".
  * $home_link
    Target of the home link on top of all pages (the first part of view
    "breadcrumbs").  By default set to absolute URI of a page ($my_uri).
@@ -205,7 +216,7 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
  * $fallback_encoding
    Gitweb assumes this charset if line contains non-UTF-8 characters.
    Fallback decoding is used without error checking, so it can be even
-   'utf-8'. Value mist be valid encodig; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
+   'utf-8'. Value must be valid encoding; see Encoding::Supported(3pm) man
    page for a list.   By default 'latin1', aka. 'iso-8859-1'.
  * @diff_opts
    Rename detection options for git-diff and git-diff-tree. By default
@@ -216,6 +227,11 @@ not include variables usually directly set during build):
    repositories from launching cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.  Set this
    to true if you don't trust the content of your repositories. The default
    is false.
+ * $maxload
+   Used to set the maximum load that we will still respond to gitweb queries.
+   If server load exceed this value then return "503 Service Unavaliable" error.
+   Server load is taken to be 0 if gitweb cannot determine its value.  Set it to
+   undefined value to turn it off.  The default is 300.
 
 
 Projects list file format
@@ -376,7 +392,7 @@ named without a .git extension (e.g. /pub/git/project instead of
 
 	DocumentRoot /var/www/gitweb
 
-	AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)? /pub/git$1$3
+	AliasMatch ^(/.*?)(\.git)(/.*)?$ /pub/git$1$3
 	<Directory /var/www/gitweb>
 		Options ExecCGI
 		AddHandler cgi-script cgi
@@ -401,6 +417,14 @@ http://git.example.com/project
 
 will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
 
+This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project
+has a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+
+http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
+
+will fail with a 404 error.
+
+
 
 Originally written by:
   Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>